Amid tragedy, communities creatively honor Simchat Torah, blending celebration with remembrance to uphold tradition while ...

Simchat Torah arrives this week. Here's why North Jersey Jews consider it one of their happiest holidays — but also, this ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre for prayers, on the occasion of Hoshana ...

Last year, we unknowingly celebrated while families in the south were being massacred. This year, I'm told to embrace the ...

Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a ...

Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...

Gaining the wisdom of Torah every week is an unusual way to honor the memory of the worst day in Israeli history. But by ...

We need to seek a middle path between the usual joy of Simchat Torah and the mourning necessitated by the disaster of Simchat ...

As their congregations prepare to celebrate Simchat Torah, local faith leaders reflect on the holiday in the wake of the Oct.

On the Jewish calendar, the horrific attack of Oct. 7 occurred with the 22nd day of Tishrei, which is Simchat Torah, “the ...

“Can we dance with Torah scrolls whose embroideries now bear, for a lasting memory, the names of our murdered loved ones?” Synagogues and communities in the United States, Israel and ...

It's often accompanied by a parading of the Torah scrolls, the faith's most sacred and central text. But this year, many are wondering how to celebrate a day that, on the Hebrew calendar ...